Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Gun Barrel City, Texas, in Henderson County, has about 7,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Texas the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases; the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Gun Barrel City is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Gun Barrel City public records, Henderson County criminal records, Gun Barrel City arrest records, Gun Barrel City warrants, Gun Barrel City inmate search, Gun Barrel City court records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Henderson County District Court
A criminal case from Gun Barrel City is filed in the Henderson County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts, which take misdemeanors in the County Court or County Court at Law; traffic tickets, evictions and small claims in the Justice Courts, and the court file, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Henderson County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at henderson-county.com/departments/county-clerk (page title: County Clerk | Henderson County), phone (903) 675-6162, Monday - Friday / 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m., a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
Texas has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Texas Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Texas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3 a search, through the Texas Department of Public Safety. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Texas Department of Public Safety site.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at securesite.dps.texas.gov/dpswebsite/criminalhistory.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Gun Barrel City
The Henderson County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Gun Barrel City (filed by the FBI as Gun Barrel City Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Gun Barrel City: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places six other agencies and one campus police department in Henderson County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Frankston Police Department and the Mabank Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Henderson County, so their arrests are not broken out for Henderson County here.
Together, the 12 agencies in Henderson County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 882 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Gun Barrel City arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Gun Barrel City in 2025
The agency that reports for Gun Barrel City had 9 violent and 133 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Henderson County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Henderson County become charges and files them in the Henderson County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at henderson-county.com/departments/district-attorney (page title: District Attorney | Henderson County), phone (903) 675-6100, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
The Sex Offender Registry for Gun Barrel City
Registered sex offenders living in Gun Barrel City are listed on the Texas Public Sex Offender Registry, run by the Texas Department of Public Safety at dps.texas.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Henderson County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Texas Public Information Act a county office must answer a request within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hendersontx.us/1397/Open-Records (page title: Open Records | Henderson, TX).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Henderson County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Henderson County and Texas. These criminal records pages from its Henderson County listing were opened again on October 1, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Texas DPS, Crime Records (dps.texas.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Gun Barrel City?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Texas Public Information Act.
How do I get my own Texas criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Who prosecutes crimes in Gun Barrel City?
The District Attorney, reached at (903) 675-6100, which files its cases in the Henderson County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts.
Is this the official Gun Barrel City website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.